The Agile Attorney Podcast Managing Capacity by Making Work Visible: Agile Lessons for Law Firms with Dimitri Ponomareff [Bonus]
Dec 30, 2025
Dimitri Ponomareff, an Agile coach and co-founder of Greenline, shares his journey through chaotic tech projects and the transformative power of Agile and Kanban. He discusses turning disaster into structure by visualizing workflows and using effective standups. Dimitri highlights how lawyers thrive on process and need visual collaboration, offering insights on managing commitments and balancing emotional responses with data. He provides practical tips to reduce overwhelm, such as limiting intake and honest capacity assessment, ensuring law firms operate with more calm and confidence.
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Surviving A Death March With Stickies
- Dimitri survived a massive ERP 'death march' by using sticky notes, daily standups, and experiments from a Scrum book.
- The team's collaboration kept attrition at zero and produced leaders who later became directors and CIOs.
Ease Into Standups Gradually
- If daily standups feel impossible, start smaller: try once or twice a week to build the habit.
- Treat the first runs as safe-to-fail experiments and adjust frequency based on value.
Visual Boards Won Over Non-Tech Teams
- Dimitri applied visual boards outside IT in state government and grant management, pinning grant documents to walls as cards.
- Non-technical teams adopted standups and visual boards because they provided a shared place to coordinate and ask for help.
